Weird messages in F12 when using some programs: "used the greatest stack depth ..."

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Sep 14 15:41:18 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:

 > >I'm guessing it's some debugging functionality in glibc, and it'd be
 > >turned off for the final release.
 > 
 > I'm fairly sure that is coming from the kernel, and it is reporting kernel
 > stack usage, not application.  It just happens that whatever that application
 > reported was triggered the greatest stack depth usage on boot I think.
 
correct. it's nothing to be concerned about.
purely an informational thing.  it's useful info if it was followed by
a crash, but in most cases, things are just fine, even if the stack
limits are close to being reached.

	Dave




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